Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott. Text only, with index |
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... thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me . Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points 8 [ Essay 3 Of Unity in Religion.
... thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me . Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points 8 [ Essay 3 Of Unity in Religion.
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... party should know whence it cometh . This is the more 25 generous . For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt , as in making the party repent . But base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark ...
... party should know whence it cometh . This is the more 25 generous . For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt , as in making the party repent . But base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark ...
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... party envied is beheld in glory or triumph . For that sets an edge upon envy ; and , besides , at such time , the spirits of the person envied do come forth most into the outward parts , and so meet the blow . 15 But leaving these ...
... party envied is beheld in glory or triumph . For that sets an edge upon envy ; and , besides , at such time , the spirits of the person envied do come forth most into the outward parts , and so meet the blow . 15 But leaving these ...
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... party loved ; but to the loved most of all , except the love be reciproque . For it is a true rule , that love is ever rewarded either with the re- ciproque , or with an inward or secret contempt . By how much the more , men ought to ...
... party loved ; but to the loved most of all , except the love be reciproque . For it is a true rule , that love is ever rewarded either with the re- ciproque , or with an inward or secret contempt . By how much the more , men ought to ...
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... party , and lean to a side , that is , as a boat that is over- thrown by uneven weight on the one side : as was well seen in the time of Henry III . of France ; for , first himself entered League for the extirpation of the Pro- testants ...
... party , and lean to a side , that is , as a boat that is over- thrown by uneven weight on the one side : as was well seen in the time of Henry III . of France ; for , first himself entered League for the extirpation of the Pro- testants ...
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affection alleys amongst ancient atheism Augustus Cæsar better beware body bold Cæsar cause Certainly Cicero cometh commendation commonly counsel counsellors cunning custom danger deal discontentment discourse dissimulation doth England envy Epicurus Epimetheus especially Essays factions fame favour fear fortune Galba garden give giveth goeth grace greatest ground hand hath haue honour hurt judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind kings less likewise Lucullus maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature never nobility noble observation opinion party persons plantation pleasure Plutarch poets Pompey princes profanum religion remedy reputation rest riches Romans saith secrecy secret seditions seemeth Sejanus Septimius Severus servants side sometimes sort Sparta speak speech suits sure Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought Tiberius tions true unto usury Vespasian virtue Vitellius whereas whereby wherein whereof wisdom wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 2 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 185 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite 184 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Seite 1 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty...
Seite 91 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Seite 2 - But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Seite 166 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Seite 2 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Seite 4 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it...
Seite 186 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...